By Jeffro on March 9, 2012
Sucuri has published more information regarding the compromising of at least 30,000 domains. Based on their research, they are ruling out the possibility that the attacks are taking advantage of a new vulnerability within the core of WordPress.
The first question is how are these sites getting hacked? On all the cases we analyzed, they either had outdated versions of WordPress, or of a plugin. We can safely rule out any new vulnerability on WordPress itself.
To stay on top of the latest malware threats on the web, you should subscribe to their RSS feed. Perhaps the more people that realize this stuff is happening on a daily basis, the more it will persuade them to keep sites, plugins, and themes updated.
Posted in News | Tagged malware, security, wordpress |
By Jeffro on March 9, 2012
Fresh from WordCamp Phoenix 2012, Lance Willett who works for Automattic and is part of the theme wrangler team gave a great presentation for beginners on how to navigate the vast landscape that is WordPress themes. He covers the gamut such as where to look for themes, commercial themes, things to consider before using the theme on your site, etc. This presentation is truly for the beginner as it has nothing to do with coding. Nice job Lance.
Posted in Themes, Video | Tagged beginners, Themes, wordcamp |
By Jeffro on March 8, 2012
How would you like to experience WordPress functions within your inbox on a daily basis? If so, consider signing up to the WordPress Daily Documentation site. Each day features a different function within WordPress sent to your inbox which contains examples, an explanation of what the function does, parameters, and the usual information you would find via other sources. Since signing up, I’ve received emails covering add_shortcode() and get_the_ID().
There are all sorts of ways to view information related to specific WordPress functions but this method may be especially useful to those who are starting to learn what functions are and which ones WordPress contains. But if you don’t feel like putting your email address on yet another subscription list, there is always the Codex.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged daily, email, functions |
By Jeffro on March 7, 2012
Once again, I want to tell you to not blindly trust theme authors when they say their theme is SEO friendly. “SEO friendly” is just a label they put on their theme and since most of their customers don’t know what to look for to see if it’s actually true, yet know that it’s important, it helps “sell” themes.
Sounds like he’s describing me and I bet a lot of other people as well. Overall, good advice from Joost de Valk with a little bit of self promotion at the end.
Posted in News | Tagged canonical, seo, Themes |
By Jeffro on March 6, 2012
Interconnectit has announced that The Auditor (name to be determined later) has entered the closed beta process and is currently looking for people to test the plugin. The plugin is an event logger that tracks key options and content changes within a WordPress installation and contains a viewer that lets you view what’s been happening on your site. This plugin sounds like the perfect option to determine if things are going on within your website that you were not aware of. The closed beta is limited to a select group of people but if you’d like to participate in the event, you can leave a comment on their announcement post explaining why you’d like to give it a try.
Posted in Plugins | Tagged auditor, beta, Plugins |
By Jeffro on March 6, 2012
Themergency has a list of WordPress related projects to watch that are using GitHub as their source code repository instead of the traditional Subversion approach. In case you didn’t know it already, WordPress itself is also using GitHub except that it’s being synched every thirty minutes with the Subversion repository and only contains read-only access. Judging by the comments, a number of themes are also using GitHub as their repository. I wonder if this has translated into a more social experience in users contributing back to the original project which is supposedly one of the awesome benefits of using GitHub? ∞
Posted in News | Tagged code, github, links |
By Jeffro on March 5, 2012
Ryan Imel of WPCandy.com recently had the chance to sit down with John James Jacoby to discuss both BuddyPress and bbPress as well as a few other topics. The interview is about an hour long but well worth the listen if you’re at all interested in the two platforms. ∞
Posted in News | Tagged bbPress, BuddyPress, interview |
By Jeffro on March 5, 2012
In what I think is a great service to anyone who operates a website, the security service Sucuri has started to publish articles containing answers to user submitted questions. In their latest installment, they answer some general questions such as why anyone would want to hack your site, what they gain by attacking a website, and how to check if your site is infected, which is of course an advertisement for their free site scanner.
Speaking of their scanner, I checked WPTavern the other day and was relieved to see that the site came up clean. I’ve read too many horror stories from people who have had to try and save compromised websites to know that it’s nothing short of a giant pain in the rear to make sure everything is clean.
Posted in News | Tagged malware, security, sucuri |
By Jeffro on March 1, 2012
This past weekend, I gave my first ever solo talk on WordPress development, with just a hint of UI love. I’ve taught classes on web/digital media and talk to/perform in front of lots of people all the time, but this was my first ever “stand up in front of a room of geeks and go”. It was awesome. I think I kicked ass. My code got the once-over and blessings of some developers that I and many others respect very, very much. And you know one of the comments I got over and over? “It’s amazing/surprising/something-allegedly-positive-but-expressing-a-contradiction-to-perception to see a female developer.” 5
Guess what.
That’s not a helpful comment
An interesting read from an Asian, female WordPress developer and how people like her shouldn’t be viewed as an anomaly.
Posted in News | Tagged developers, women, wordpress |
By Jeffro on February 29, 2012
Theme authors take note, Andrew Nacin is currently leading the charge on rewriting large swathes of get_themes(). Andrew has spent the better part of the last week working on the WP_Theme Class which will make theme authors lives a lot easier. If you’re a theme developer, I encourage you to thoroughly review ticket #20103 to provide feedback on these changes. ∞
Posted in WordPress | Tagged classes, nacin, Themes |
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